Hello!
I want to ask if the software can accept an sms with NMEA coordinates($GPRMC,$GPGGA) and show the exact location on the map?
I send an sms to my phone the sms comes, but the software does not recognize it.
Any suggestion? On the other phone I dont use TrekBuddy.
Thanks

Yes I have the same issue !
I have created several gpx files with comments for each waypoint that were perfectly displayed by the 0.9.78 release ... now I just have the title "Comment" without any text below then the title "Location" with the location.

As for the accented characters it is because of the "UTF-8" encoding !
The UTF-8 only uses the first 128 characters from the ASCII table "as-is", not the extended ones (from 128 to 255) which are used to encode in a unique way multiple languages using a combination of several bytes (have a look at Unicode & UTF-8 on wikipedia...)

So you must find a software that will translate your comments from ASCII to UTF-8 to correctly see the accented characters.

I use the GPX files generated by Geocaching.com pocket queries straight off. I has been working just fine, but running version .80, the comments does not show any more. Previosly, the comment field from Geocaching contained the "Cache Name" and "Cache Owner".

I have attached 2 samples. I am pretty sure that TrekBuddy used the "desc" field subordinate to the <wpt> tag mapping into the comments field.

By the way; a few feature requests also posted in other place in forum:

- if the list of waypoints could show distance to waypoint from current position
- if the list of waypoints can be sorted on waypoint name or distance
- it would be nice if the cache description page could show the <encoded_hints> field, if exist

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I am pretty sure that TrekBuddy used the "desc" field subordinate to the <wpt> tag mapping into the comments field.
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- if the list of waypoints could show distance to waypoint from current position
- if the list of waypoints can be sorted on waypoint name or distance
- it would be nice if the cache description page could show the <encoded_hints> field, if exist

For the <desc> I confirm : till the 0.9.78 the <desc> field was used for the comment.
But never mind you just have to do a search and replace on all <desc> and </desc> fields and replace them by <cmt> and </cmt>

As for the features request I fully agree and also vote for them, with <encoded_hints> as the higher priority !

@kruch : if it can help you, even I'm not really experienced in java, I can try to create for you a DecodeHint(String Hint) function so you'll just have to use it and add a button in the waypoint screen to show the hint if the <encoded_hints> field exists for the current waypoint ?

function invChar(b : byte) : byte;
begin
result:=b;
if (b>=Ord('A')) and (b<=Ord('M')) then result:=result+13;
if (b>=Ord('a')) and (b<=Ord('m')) then result:=result+13;
if (b>=Ord('N')) and (b<=Ord('Z')) then result:=result-13;
if (b>=Ord('n')) and (b<=Ord('z')) then result:=result-13;
end;

Yes, replacing the <desc> tag with <cmt> tag may solve it, but every week I get about 5-8 automatically generated GPX-files from Geocaching Pocket Queries service. I think it is quite conveniant to have the ability to pickup the zip-file and extract the GPX-file directly on or to the device, without having to replace contents in the file.

Kruch - maybe you can identify that the GPX file is a Geocaching GPX file, and hence use the desc-field instead of the comment field, or make the necessary replacements in the XML-file before starting to parse it?

Hello!
I want to ask if the software can accept an sms with NMEA coordinates($GPRMC,$GPGGA) and show the exact location on the map?
I send an sms to my phone the sms comes, but the software does not recognize it.
Any suggestion? On the other phone I dont use TrekBuddy.
Thanks

TrekBuddy has its own SMS format (probably not a wise choice), but anyway - midlets do not have access to ordinary inbox

Last edited by kruch on Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:05 pm; edited 1 time in total

I use .LOC-files from Geocaching.com. There is a "<name> by <owner>" string in the comment field. I never had any problem with it.

But I never tried GPX from GC.com, so I'm not going argue which one is better - MAYBE the GPX has some extra advance I don't know... _________________The best thing a man can do for themselves is to help to the others.
-I know it sounds strange... but you may try it

Hello!
I want to ask if the software can accept an sms with NMEA coordinates($GPRMC,$GPGGA) and show the exact location on the map?
I send an sms to my phone the sms comes, but the software does not recognize it.
Any suggestion? On the other phone I dont use TrekBuddy.
Thanks

TrekBuddy has its own SMS format (probably not a wise choice), but anyway - midlets do not have access to ordinary inbox

Anyway... what a coincidence.. I've spent last couple of days researching such "thing", and I can say that 0.9.81 (and onwards) will have native Symbian buddy application for S60 owners, that will make tar-ed maps work as fast as on other devices. And working backlight control (I hope)... I hope to polish the code and make it available for testing tomorrow or weekend.

The verity of info shown in TB depends on how much raw NMEA data can be retrieved for a location via Location API.

Just FYI - On my Nokia N95 8GB I now see some satellite information (great!). I see the number of satellites and the HDOP value but no signal strength or any other information. Obviously the N95 doesn't provide this, then. No problem, I'm happy with what I get.

Edit:

Out of curiosity:
As you mention soon to release a native S60 version (cool!), are there any plans to provide an . version (via the Apps Store) one day? Not that I have an ., just asking.

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